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Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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trying on a metaphor
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
So you know.
This might be the real one, y’all.
I could use some luck
i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.
rip king, truly nobody was doing it for weird sci-fi and fantasy obsessed nerds like you 💔
@ Grim Reaper you took the wrong person
one really really really funny thing you realize when you are studying history is that people pretty much always desperately wanted to post online and would have been soooooo fucking crazy on here. i wish hildegard of bingen was oomf
I love it when I pick up a book and within the first few chapters go 'yes, there's the autism'. It's not always canon but I'm certainly attracted to books that suddenly have characters with autistic traits.
The authors barely concealed historical fixation
once again i love how star wars takes place in a massive galaxy with thousands of planets and billions of people, and yet every bounty hunter knows each other personally
It's called networking babe
when Boba Fett adds you on LinkedIn you know you've made it
gonna be so fr, I don't think lady macbeth was american
When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*
HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!
The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!
shout out to the little monk in each of my cells that transcribes my DNA by candle light
Hi! I’m very sorry if this is an intrusive question or just bothersome (please don’t feel obligated to answer if you don’t want!).
I am currently a little over half done with my MLIS and am finally getting more field experience. Your post about not being prepped in school for upsetting materials made me wonder, what kind stuff I should be preparing myself for? Do you have any examples of things you really wish grad school had readied you for but didn’t?
Thanks so much!
I had another similar request in response to this post so kinda putting them together in one
I will preface this by noting that I have worked in a lot of different kinds of archival collections so some things are more common and others not so much. Also, we do find lots of cool stuff and oh so much boring stuff as well. This is not intended to drive anyone away from archives and special collections, just a heads up that people and institutions are messy and that is very evident the records we leave.
To give an idea of the range of collection types I have worked in: federal government, state government, more than one natural history museum, academic library special collections, corporate archives, state history museum collections, city councilor/state senator and member of congress collections.
Some of the more common types of rough materials to come to the archives
Finding porn is literally always a possibility. Though rarely in boxes or folders labeled as such. This isn’t necessarily upsetting or difficult to deal with but somehow it always appears at the worst possible moment. Like a student group shows up or a VIP is being given a tour and now things are uncomfortable because you are trying to figure out why 5 of the same issue of Hustler are in this box of materials from a gay politician. Totally not based on actual events. (And in one case, very upsetting sexually explicit materials appeared)
When working on collections of a person/family/organization, you will find out things you wish you hadn’t. Their worst mistakes or that they did/believed/thought xyz, that they were super mean, whatever. This can be rough if it is/was someone you admired. You will get a glimpse of them at their worst. This can also be a challenge if they are still alive and you have to work with them or have the awkward conversation like “hey so we found all these letters to your mistress and our deed of gift isn’t for personal materials and we are supposed to offer personal materials to you so do you want them back?” Or maybe you have that conversation with their surviving family 🙃
Racism, homophobia, misogyny, antisemitism, xenophobia, and so on. It, uh, it can be really bad. This might be crank/hate mail, this might be sprinkled into notes, this might be slang, cartoons/visual representations. It comes in many many forms.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment files. This is often within employee accident/workman’s comp type files. Not always with photos but sometimes with photos.
Dealing with materials of a traumatic event you have lived through and remember. For example, I have dealt with a lot of materials on 9/11. From federal down to daily meeting notes from neighborhoods directly impacted by the fall of the World Trade Center. It comes up often. Sometimes it’s easy to move through those materials. Sometimes I have to put a lot of time and focus into them because I need to watch for personal identifying information that can’t yet be made public.
Some of the other difficult types of materials/subjects I personally have come across
Hate crimes files and case reports, sometimes with photos
Human trafficking and kidnapping
Involuntary institutionalization
Murder
Suicide
Medical malpractice
Looting/theft of artifacts, desecration of sites/burials, buying/selling/trading of human remains
Materials/artifacts from hate groups, gangs, nazis
Biohazard materials. (Please don’t send blood to the archives.) In addition to like hair and fingernails, dirty clothes.
Lots of animal death, photos and sometimes specimens (you would assume this is limited to those natural history museums I worked for. You would be wrong)
Eugenics and racist pseudoscience. As in records of a eugenics conference and society.
Sometimes you see the ugly stuff, or potential for it to be ugly, coming. Sometimes it reaches out and smacks you. Step away and take time as needed. Talk with other people in the profession. Having a therapist is awesome if that is available to you. Have some coping mechanisms at the ready. And if you are going more toward librarianship than archives, that is a different response but I am barely a librarian so I leave that to someone else.
I know this is a daunting list. I don’t find these kinda of things every day. Some collections come with far more trauma and upsetting materials than others. Some are just boring. I always feel like such a bummer when I talk to folks about the profession. Sorry. But I would rather people not be completely blindsided.
my most notable This Shouldn't Be in a Law School Archive content from an internship I did:
Prosthetic teeth (crowns), hanging out at the bottom of a box
All personal documentation relating to a social security survivorship claim
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Maybe it's because I don't have kids and don't plan to but I cannot wrap my head around the concept of gender disappointment. I *really* can't wrap my head around the concept of being a woman and being disappointed to have a girl. You are a girl! What's the problem with girls!!
‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this
man i just dont know why im so afraid all the time (<- has the disorder that makes you afraid all the time)